Aspen Center for Environmental Studies Endowment Fund Inc

Analysis

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies Endowment Fund Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Aspen, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending October 2023, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies Endowment Fund Inc reported income of $302k and spending of $635k, spending 210% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2019 to October 2023, income fell from $775k to $302k (-61%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2021, when income rose by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 64% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies Endowment Fund Inc sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 59th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc ($302k), Vermont Green Up Inc ($302k) and Recraft Creative Reuse Center ($302k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending October 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.5% of the total. At year end it held assets of $11.5m against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $11.5m.